Deutsche Grammophon and Apple Music have announced a long-term collaboration designed to enhance the experience of classical music for a global music audience. The partnership will feature “The DG Playlist” – a regularly updated classical musical experience to highlight the very best recordings from the iconic 120-year-old classical music label. The playlist will also feature a selection of visual albums featuring legendary performances by DG superstar artists and special video performances from Daniil Trifonov and Ildar Abdrazakov. For the launch, artists Daniil Trifonov, Rolando Villazón and Peter Gregson will curate Apple Music’s three main composer radio stations: Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven.…

OperaWire was lucky enough to catch up with the wonderfully talented soprano Carmela Remigio, during the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, where she sang Armida in Handel’s “Rinaldo.” Known as “Madame Mozart” in Italy, owing to her close association with Mozart’s operas, and especially “Don Giovanni,” her repertoire is, in fact, far wider. In 2019, she is scheduled to sing operas by Donizetti (Giovanna Seymour), Verdi (Desdemona), Puccini (Liù), Spontini (Amazily) and, of course, Mozart (Vitellia, Donna Elvira). Remigio shot to fame in 1992, winning “The Pavarotti Prize” in Philadelphia, at the age of 18, and made her…

OperaRox Productions will premiere the workshop version of the new opera "Ghost Variations." The workshop, set for August 19, 2018 at Scorca Hall at the National Opera Center, represents Tony Manfredonia’s first opera. The opera was chosen after a call to scores in 2017 by OperaRox. Seven other submissions were produced as art song in last year’s New Works Concerts as part of NYOA's NY OperaFest, and Manfredonia's was chosen for development into a full production. The August 19th workshop will be the first step leading up to an off-Broadway run for the full World Premiere. "Ghost Variations" focuses on issues…

Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” is quite a unique case. Premiering on August 3, 1829, the opera is considered by many to contain some of Rossini’s greatest dramatic genius. And yet the opera has never quite held a proper place in the operatic canon the way that his “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” or even “La Cenerentola” have. And yet, in some ways, it is his most widely known work, thanks to the famous overture that has made its way into pop culture. But how popular is the opera’s overture? Here’s a look at how it has made its way into pop culture.…